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Covering 13 months of combat in one of the Confederacy's rare siege artillery units, Major Edward Manigault's journal offers a day-by-day account of life on the front lines during the American Civil War. The journal is especially noted for its description of artillery training.
Using conscription to illustrate a central paradox of the Confederacy, this work examines the system's daily operations, troublesome substitution, and exemption procedures, and ultimate collapse. William Garrett Piston's introduction places the volume in its historical context.
This is the diary of John S. Jackman, a Confederate soldier in the Orphan Brigade, a regiment in Tennessee's 9th Kentucky Brigade which... Læs mere
The 18 essays in this volume seek to retrieve the voices of women who contributed to the rhetorical realm. Beginning by tracing... Læs mere
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was one of the events which sparked the US Civil War. This study looks at the group of Northern... Læs mere
The wife of a physician, mother of ten children, and mistress of five slaves, Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox,... Læs mere
This selection of letters covers almost 100 years of the history of the Hammonds, a South Carolina family. It chronicles the Civil War and the Reconstruction and its aftermath,... Læs mere
Examines the contention that violence, be it the mass product of revolutionary uprising or a private sadomasochistic indulgence, may be taken to instill in those who commit it the capacity for radical change.
The story of one of America's first historic preservationists and the city she fought to save. This biography... Læs mere
A discussion of international relations and human behaviour. The essays are by eight scholars, each of whom presents a divergent... Læs mere
This volume reveals the personal stories of University of South Carolina students over the past two hundred years. Told in their own words, these writings, from antebellum manuscript to e-mails, reveal attitudes and opinions, issues and passions.
First published in 1879, this book chronicles Pheobe Pember's experiences as matron of the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital from November 1862 until the fall of Richmond in April 1865.